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Bernie is not a democrat and has never worked to improve the democratic party, he's literally not a registered democrat, he only tried to hijack the party because again, socialists are lazy. He's a charlatan. You're trying to say the u.s. system is rigged to prevent socialists from winning local positions, state seats? Preposterous, socialists have never put in any work.

You think Bernie has done something in 50 years, let me prove to you very easily that he hasn't, why hasn't he built up the socialist party, why doesn't he build the socialist party every 4 years by running an enthusiastic Socialist primary? Why doesn't he support smaller socialists to run and build the party, the position of mayor in nyc is not a small position by the way. By your assessment of reality it should be extremely easy given everyone wants bernies policies and no one likes democrats. Just because socialists haven't been in power doesn't mean they couldn't do anything, they haven't built their party, at all, haven't even tried. Before you go on about splitting the left, that doesn't apply to state and local positions, it would make no difference to split the vote in many areas. You can build a socialist party, but just like socialist policies and public outreach, they're lazy as fuck.

You have to quit thinking about voters as two different nations, they're American voters, how did Biden win in 2020 then? 1/3 of voters are swing voters, between democrats and republicans by the way, not socialists. Biden won over progressives, that's why he won? LMAO, the 90 year old white career senator, that said he would veto medicare for all? But Harris wasn't progressive enough, the candidate that is open to Medicare for all and occasionally pushes for it? Biden was so enthusiastic, huh? Liberal policies are good for the economy. Medicare for all, free college, 'Stop Oil', cutoff Israel, universal basic income, reparations, DEI are bad for the economy. The economy is not what's most important though, and we have to admit some progressive policies will hurt the economy because they are better for the people. Biden got the most votes ever by the way. Old white, out of touch Biden. Too much energy apparently, lol, oozing with enthusiasm.

No you don't, you should consider the common voter, is a woman running for president "woke" to them? You should not fight for policy, you should educate the public to the point they agree with you, policy change should be from a consensus. It's lazy to just want to push new policy through, progress requires outreach and educating. "Inequality" you have to stop thinking like the world is zero sum gain, rich getting richer does not mean the poor are not doing better. The democrats do progressive policy when in power. The world has REDUCED inequality due to democrats, globally, the people have gained in equality, again you're cherry picking a selective snapshot, and what's funny is that it is a snapshot of suburbanites in America, as a 'socialist' you're supposedly supposed to care about all people.

A woman running for president is progressive. It's progressive action, it takes up some of the available bandwidth for progressive action. Too many people are inundated and overwhelmed with too much stuff all at once, this causes a knee-jerk reaction toward 'nazism'. You have to look at all action currently proposed, the American voter has to process all of this and they don't understand most of it, so they vote out of fear for what they do know, the status quo. Of course there is support for SOME progressive policies, the problem is the other policies. Medicare for all is a monumental task for implementation and would require a super majority in congress to be able to pass an effective system, look at how republicans just effectively repealed Medicaid for example, would you want Medicare for all and then 4 years later Republicans sabotage healthcare for 70% of Americans. You think Obama wasn't progressive; the largest tax increase on the wealthy since the 50's, expanded medicaid and snap, Obamacare, home buyer credit, child tax credit, environmental policy? That's some socialist propaganda you're smoking. Sanders has been in office for 50 years and his only accomplishment is getting RID of medicaid, he isn't a progressive, he's a cartoon character, completely ineffective. Biden was dealing with the trump recession and covid, you have to deal with emergencies before you worry about some whiny suburban socialists wanting free college and universal basic income. You think medicare for all should have been a priority in 2020? That's crazy, the u,s, is in terrible financial position, the dollar is on brink of collapse. Socialists have lost us Medicaid, SNAP funding, USAID, school funding, and environmental protections: but hey, 'suburban baristas and amazon workers really need to be able to buy new cars!!', strawmanning of course, but this is what socialists look like to most people. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/mood_of_america_archive/generic_congressional_ballot/democrats_expand_lead_in_2026_congressional_forecast Jul 22, 2025 · The next midterm elections are still more than a year away, but the Democratic Party has widened its lead over Republicans in the battle to control the House

And women running is progressive. There is only backlash if enough people don't support the policies, there was not enough support for Obamacare, Snap and Medicaid expansion, student loan forgiveness, trans sports,..... People vote Republican for less government action, less progress, they don't consider who is the better or smarter candidate, they don't listen to the candidates, the parties are binary to them based on the issues. We have a ton of progressive action right now, Obamacare, Medicaid expansion, environmentalism, trans rights, student loan forgiveness, open borders, taxes, ...... It's easy to paint a target that shows democrats mean higher prices, because they do, just for good reasons. The problem is, we're doing all these things already and then you have idiots like AOC shouting from the rooftops for free college, reparations, defund the police, nationalize healthcare,...... And they don't explain their positions, their only argument is "it's a right!" It's stupidity, lazy, I support the proposed changes, but the sales technique is as dumb as Trump's, so you get backlash just like Trump does from liberals. Items need to be addressed in a prioritized manner, one at a time, and THOROUGHLY explained to the public, you need to get the public on board before implementation, otherwise you get republicans. Kamala only lost the entire election by a few thousand votes in two states. Hakeem polls just as good as AOC and Mamdani, I wasn't suggesting him for President, he's not running for president. Democrats have won Governor in RED states, Kentucky, Arizona, North Carolina,.... both senate seats in Georgia, Arizona, Virginia,.... democrats are doing great, progressive is inherently the underdog, change is always an uphill battle. 2024 had record inflation, it would be a hard race for anyone and Kamala almost won with 100 days to run. https://apnews.com/article/student-loans-debt-cancellation-forgiveness-d213afe3ea69da3c6b9e713c7dc16a9a Jan 13, 2025 · President Joe Biden has now overseen the cancellation of student loans for more than 5 million Americans

Trump won 2016 due in large part to backlash from progressive actions democrats took; gay marriage, Obamacare, expanding Medicaid, Obama implemented the largest tax increase on the wealthy since the 1950s, home buyer credits, child tax credits, green initiative,.... Listen to conservatives, they go on and on about all of it all the time. Trump won 2024 due in part to the Obama progress and then Biden continuing it with student loan forgiveness. Inflation was the largest contributor, but in what was in the control of Democrats, you can only mark the narrow loss up to progressivism. Democrats will win easy in the upcoming elections. Hakeem Jeffries polls just as well as AOC or Mamdani. You don't want a very enthusiastic politician because they will never be able to deliver in the end which leads to backlash against the party. You can't just look at trumpism in the short term, you have to look bigger picture, he could actually wind up effectively ending the republican party, he cannot deliver anything, he is going to make america shit very quickly like no one living has seen. What we need is a sane democratic party to retain control long enough to pack the supreme court, then we need the socialists to break off into the other major party. We will continue this idiotic cycle with another Republican if we keep implementing policies before getting enough public support for them. https://www.newsweek.com/maria-elvira-salazar-florida-congressional-poll-2108810 Democrat Edges Out Incumbent Florida Republican in New Poll 5 hours ago · Democrat Edges Out Incumbent Florida Republican in New Poll. Published Aug 04, 2025 at 5:39 PM EDT. By . Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine Why would progressives sit out the vote next time? Barely anyone voted third party in 2024 and Trump won, everyone knew what is happening now would happen if trump won, do you believe progressives were okay with that? Progressives tax corporations, not small time farmers, conservatives tax small time farmers and not corporations. You only pay tax on profit. Taxing corporations, hurts corporations, it levels the playing field for family farms, progressives want to tax corporations almost out of existence.

cleanups and construction, festivals, art shows and performances, political campaigns. Parks tend to rely a lot on volunteers. I even travel to other cities to volunteer. In my city we also have a decent amount of political talks people give, small ones at cafe's or small venues. Lot's of thinkers there, and interesting perspectives and information. And there's a big Humanist community, and at least one Buddhist center that I've been to.

People like to be told how to live, it's easier. Just as some people like religions or just buying and living however their television or phone now tells them how to live. Now people like google and Chat-GPT to be their all-knowing priest, or random strangers on Reddit. My problem with fast format, I admitted at the bottom of my comment that it can be useful, BUT, people need to think, and McDonalds self-help inhibits that, ESPECIALLY when the McDonalds workers are egoic, for example someone curious is on here and posts something they think that is contrary to the McDonalds menu, instead of fostering their curiosity people are often chastised for not just accepting the menu, 'just accept what you're told, otherwise be yelled at for "not thinking deeply or putting in the work". It's counter to what I think we want which you talk about in your later comment "highly developed people". My thought is that curious people, it's the curiosity that 'saves' them, no matter what they find. The reason I like Leo's videos is because of the exploration and creativity, a lot of his older work has great practical help as well. Curiosity needs nurtured, rather than doctrine shoved down people's throats like a Big Mac. My life experience has been quite antithetical to this. I love talking to people in person and am often blown away by how deep some people are. I like to volunteer for a lot of different things and meet a TON of amazing people, I also meet cool people doing yoga or other health focused activities. You may not subscribe to it, but a common school of thought is that truly developed masculine men first develop a feminine side before more fully developing into what is probably thought of here as a developed man. I don't see anything novel discussed here.

There are good mediums for deep 'discussion', such as reading or writing books and articles, even just journaling. There's still such little deep thought that you may mostly be 'interacting' with thinkers of the past, and future! I interact with fast format like this when I have no energy to think, or am anxiously avoiding something else, lol. It seems to me that most others on here must be the same way or depressed. I think this is a terrible place for any kind of socializing, or replacement for. Unless you're some worthless mystic, you must find good friends to socialize with, even if just occasionally, live. A format like this could be useful for nuggets of wisdom, but that seems like it would need a lot less ego especially with the level of social skills of most people you read on here.

Post misinterpretations you think people have about Spiral Dynamics.

@Breakingthewall 🤣

Orange is not a ruthless capitalist, that's red. Orange does not turn a blind eye to pollution or corruption.

Hippy is often a religion to people, "peace love and happiness" is often just a mindlessly repeated mantra and the proclaimers embrace it as well as Jesus followers do. Stage blue, not green, of course some big figure-heads and serious people in the movement are green. Psychedelics are tier 2, can be, rarely are. Can be orange 'play hard' or blue hippy religion and God. Socialism is not green if you're poor, it's you worrying about your subsistence, orange, and if it's paired with hating Billionaires, it's red. If you support luigi, that's red Social justice Warrior, if you're in a group that needs social justice, it's probably just self preservation, often not green.

Nah dawg, listen to the horses ass herself. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Officia… https://www.ocasiocortez.com › issues Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress Alexandria co-sponsored the College for All Act, a law that will establish tuition-free public college and trade school

She spreads hate and stupidity; BLM riots, defund the police, Luigi, UBI, free college, reparations,...

Green does not do enough public education or discourse. And they let morons that coalition with them, talk their stupidity too much, they need to rebuke people like AOC.

I don't think you people have even studied these models.

This is some serious propaganda and bias. How about wait for an instance of corruption.

Xi is goading Shitler again. China is going to get him to drive off a cliff. "China says the United States’ decision to exempt smartphones and other electronic goods from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs is a “small step” in correcting a misguided policy."

Make Actualized Great Again, deport the illegals.

The first new admin would ban him.

Bro, he already fits YOUR tier 2 criteria. He makes movies to positively influence society, he's been green for 20 years.

Music for working

He's so damn refreshing to me, not some msnbc or Young Turks low intelligence bias.